HUM-02 · Corpus you can defend

Build a small, documented corpus; justify inclusion/exclusion like a digital humanist.

Small corpus (teacher size cap). Inclusion/exclusion log with dates and reasons. License/public-domain status recorded. No scraping behind logins; no invented “archive” of texts the student never held.

Kitchen-sink corpus. Hidden sampling bias. Citing volumes not actually included. Retroactive exclusion after seeing results.

Corpus inventory; inclusion/exclusion rationale; bias and coverage paragraph; sample passage appendix; non-claim list about what the corpus cannot represent.

CT: sampling as argument. CR: defendable boundaries. CO: peer tries to spot a silent bias. CM: inventory. CZ: authors/communities under- or over-represented.

Humanities teacher reviews inclusion log. School-supervised.

R1: one research aim, one corpus. R2: inventory complete. R3: rejected candidates listed. R4: bias named. R5: usable by a peer. R6: representation non-claims.

(a) “I used the internet.” (b) Exclusion rules written after the charts.

Lane A immediately. No verified credit claim.